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Wells Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
- You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
- Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow…
- The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when…
- But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
- Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure -…
- Alas! never had I loved him so well!
- I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what…
- Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent…
- In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth…
- Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
- It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir
- I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve…
- I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his…
- My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery…
- Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in…
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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